From Counterculture to Culture
How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life
By N. S. Thompson Monday, May 23, 2022
A Name Not Writ in Water
Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet
By A. E. Stallings Monday, April 25, 2022
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
Arctic Fantasies
The region has long been an object of dreams, desire, and misunderstanding
By Neil Shea Monday, April 11, 2022
Extreme North: A Cultural History by Bernd Brunne
Gene Therapy
A writer’s search for herself in the branches of her family tree
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, March 28, 2022
Making the List
Finding the right page required centuries of experiment
By Charles Trueheart Monday, March 21, 2022
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
From Cold War to Y2K
Looking back on a decade that was often dumb but never dull
By Malcolm Jones Monday, March 14, 2022
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
Found in Translation
An Iranian emigrant finds solace in Western literature
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 7, 2022
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
Wielders of the Knife
How doctors learned to keep patients alive on the operating table
By Perri Klass Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow
Surviving the Ebb and Flow
The curious creatures that inhabit the ocean’s edge
By Miranda Weiss Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
Dollars Versus Degrees
Are business interests alone to blame for global warming?
By Donald Worster Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
Ideology as Anatomy
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, December 2, 2024
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Creator’s Code
Are humans alone in their ability to make art?
By Evelyn McDonnell Monday, December 2, 2024
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AIby David Hajdu
Barbarity at the Bataclan
A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light
By Charles Trueheart Monday, December 2, 2024
V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert
Heart of Semi-Darkness
A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
By Diana Goetsch Thursday, September 26, 2024
